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Their work includes organising fundraising, sponsorship, budget management and event planning.

Record nominations have already been received for the awards, with 300 young people to attend, along with an audience of 300 guests. Awards will be presented in the categories arts, bravery, enterprise, literature, sport, volunteer, science, technology and environment.

An eighth award – the Jake Spicer Special Recognition Award will be awarded by the youth committee to one outstanding young person.

It is named after a former pupil of St Gregory the Great School, East Oxford, who passed away in 2009.

He died after a five-and-a-half year battle with a rare form of bone cancer. After he was diagnosed, Jake raised thousands of pounds for charity.

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To go with the theme of a celebration of young people, there will also be performances from talented young people in the county.

Hip hop dance group Body Politic and arts collective Bear on a Bicycle are among the performers.

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